Grande Galerie des Glaces

Storm coming up fast so it looks like I am going offline for now. Niters!

Oh you lucky lucky people! XD Aren't you so glad to know that I can *still* find time to make a post about the weather? Yup, it's stormy out again, mostly wet and drizzling all day. Now we have thunder, pretty loud. Nothing on tv or online that says it will be bad but just to be safe... I suppose I'll log off because of it but when I do, my server will probably go out and I won't be back online until sometime tomorrow. *le sigh*

Worked on fic a little more; otherwise haven't really done much of anything.

Back later on if possible.

My server has been glitchy all day long, probably due in part to the extremely high winds we've had--gusts up to over 30 mph. A *big* branch came down in front of my door, blocking it and banged up the fence a little but nothing bad. Shockey came and cut it up with his chainsaw, so now I can get outside again. Some fairly bad storms are predicted for tonight as well.

Letter from K.

Brother is recovering nicely from his neuter on Monday. I kinda hated to do it (because of the general idea of forcing my will on his like that, I think) but I know I did the right thing and in the long run he will be happier and healthier because of it. The vet was very pleased with his overall health -- 9 3/4 lbs., a good weight -- (he's FeLiv negative, yay!); the only problem was ear mites which are easily cleared up. He's a year old (or nearly so) and current on all his shots, so he should be a happy healthy boy now. It was a bit more than I had planned for but they are letting me have a couple of weeks to finish paying, since I had already paid 90% up front. That helps, plus they know I will be bringing in the mother cats as soon as the kittens are weaned (which will be *soon* Please!!!)

Posting this now while the server is up.

Tonight I am watching "Screened Out" on TCM, since I have no real reason to watch anything else. I'm giving up "you-know-what" and also the Sopranos, which you know is incredibly rare for me. But this is Pride Month and these movies are seldom (if ever) seen on tv, so I am making a rare exception.

It sounds as if it might get kinda nasty later on this afternoon/night so I'm posting now while the weather isn't too bad. It's windy though, there are high wind warnings out. Yay.

I got the car repair bill, which is right at $875.00. ::gulps:: Yeah, that pretty much killed any hope I had of getting some other *necessary* house repairs done but oh well. The part that went bad was the injection assembly ($530) and the labor was $108. The towing from here to Hastings and running diagnostics came to $176.15. And there was one additional gasket(?) that needed replaced as well (otherwise I would have had to take it right back for it to be fixed as well), so... yeah. Kinda steep, but the parts & labor are guaranteed for 1 year which helps. I just wish I could have gotten Sam to help me coax it to the shop in Hastings, that would have saved quite a bit. But sometimes things just can't be helped. Damn and double damn.

The one good thing is that I already had my utility bills paid, so that is one less worry for this month. The bad news is -- no chance to buy groceries other than milk, etc. and garden things to plant as intended. Meh. I also had to put my neuter/spay plans on hold indefinitely again which is a big worry in itself. But there's no help for it. And so it goes.